Miguel Conde

[My paintings are] a narrative which could be carried out on stage as well as on canvas, perhaps even on film. Of course, the ultimate narrative is our lives as we lead them. –Miguel Condé In 1956, at age 17, Condé rented a studio in New York and began to study anatomy with renowned American artist and anatomist Stephen Rogers Peck, author of the classic manual Atlas for Human Anatomy for the Artist. He also attended courses taught by the Harvard Art History professor and curator Millard Meiss, at the Fogg Art Museum. Condé returned to Mexico in 1959 and settled in Tepoztlán, a popular tourist destination near Mexico City. In 1963 he was awarded a scholarship by the French government (Bourse d’Etudes Libres), so he moved to Paris where he studied with Stanley William Hayter in his Atelier 17. In 1966, Condé returned to the United States and soon afterwards accepted a teaching position in drawing and mixed media in the graduate program at the University of Iowa School of Art. In Iowa City he met and befriended an Argentinian-born American artist and printmaker Mauricio Lasansky and the influential Chilean author José Donoso. Condé became a MacDowell Fellow in 1966 and concentrated full-time on his work in visual arts. In 1968, his solo exhibition opened to critical acclaim at the prestigious Galería de Arte Mexicano in Mexico City. Later that year, William Liebrerman, curator of MoMA, acquired two of his drawings for the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 1969, he traveled to France and then moved with his family to Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. In 1971, Condé worked at the Smithsonian Institution Print Workshop in Barcelona, which reignited his interest in graphic art. It was then that he met the prominent Spanish art dealer and print publisher Juana Mordó who offered him his first exhibition in Spain, which occurred in 1974. He became a foreign Artist-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio, in 1972. An exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art took place the following year. In 1974, Condé was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship by the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1976, Miguel Condé: paintings and drawings exhibition was organized by the Scottish Arts Council and took place in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1977, Condé participated in Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany. In 1978, an exhibition Miguel Condé: Guggenheim Suite took place at the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. In 1980, he was invited and took part in Peintres-Graveurs Français exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. In 1983, the Ministry of Culture of Spain organized an extensive retrospective exhibition Miguel Condé: 20 años de obra grabada at the Sala Picasso of Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. In a review of Condé's graphic work on display there, art critic and prolific author Fernando Huici opined that it was "paper—already forgotten in the absurd hierarchy of genres—in both drawing and engraving, where Condé finds most freedom, where he expresses with greater ease his particular vocabulary of images... " Another retrospective of the artist, Miguel Condé: Pinturas, Gouaches, Dibujos, opened at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum later the same year. In 1993, Condé met a Danish born, Madrid based printer and publisher Dan Benveniste, who would become his printer and, eventually, a collaborator in graphic projects. That same year, Ediciones Eegee-3 published 19 etchings printed by Dan Benveniste and present

Miguel Condé married Carola Schisel in Mexico, in 1960. They have two children: a son Amadeo, who was born in Paris in 1964, and a daughter, Caëtana María del Pilar, who was born in Iowa City in 1969. They split their time between Madrid and Sitges, Spain, where Condé works and maintains studios.

MacDowell Fellow, 1966 Special mention for painting, “May Show”, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973 Guggenheim Latin American Fellow, 1974 First prize for printmaking, Landesbank, Stuttgart, 1981 First prize “I/89 Euroamericana del Grabado”, Centro de Grabado Contemporáneo of A Coruña, Spain, 1989 Lifetime member of the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français, 1991 Invited artist, “II Bienal Internacional de Gravado” of the Caixa de Ourense in Ourense, Spain, 1992 Mapfre Foundation's Penagos Prize for drawing, 1999

Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.A. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, U.S.A. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, U.S.A. University of Iowa Museum of Art Iowa City, U.S.A. Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain Albertina, Vienna, Austria Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France Vatican Library, Vatican City